A little gloat

[EVguru]

A nice gentleman dropped this off last night.



It's not going to take long to earn back the £50 it cost me!

[RLWP]

Oh, how wonderful!

What is it???

Richard

[flylo]

OK I'll bite, what does it do? Looks like it would make a great "fish shocker" like you make out of a magneto?

[achtanelion]

Demagnetizer??

[browne92]

My WAG: A small crucible goes in the center and it's used to melt small amounts of metal, maybe for a jeweler. The same way an induction cooktop works.

[POLAR10]

6 pole magnetizer

[john hobdeclipe]

Miniature "Philadelphia Experiment"?

Or maybe you can use it to make a microscopic Black Hole that will then grow until it eats the earth. But I don't understand the money angle on that.

[madwilliamflint]

Of course my first reaction was

"Yeah I'd want to clean that up before screwing it in to the hole in my chest."

[wierdscience]

Miniature "Philadelphia Experiment"?

Or maybe you can use it to make a microscopic Black Hole that will then grow until it eats the earth. But I don't understand the money angle on that.

He's going to create a-"microscopic Black Hole that will then grow until it eats the earth"-unless we pay him $50,000,000,000 Muhuhahahahahahaha....

[MotorradMike]

Does it have something to do with motorbike alternators?

[EVguru]

It is indeed an alternator re-magnetiser. It was probably made by Ducati Elettronica, who supplied the ignition and charging system for the Morini V-twins amongst others.

A former Morini owner offered it via the club and I struck like a snake.

[rohart]

I take it the Morini has an annular magnet ? That spins around a the stator ? The on-bike set up has ti be much the same as what I'm looking at, doesn't it ?

I'm used to Triumphs with an annular stator and a solid magnetic rotor.

I don't suppose it'll remagnetise the dial indicator stand base I wrecked the other day ?

[John Stevenson]

Bloody hell, threw one of those away last week. didn't know what it was.

[MichaelP]

bloody hell, threw one of those away last week. Didn't know what it was.

[EVguru]

I take it the Morini has an annular magnet ? That spins around a the stator ? The on-bike set up has ti be much the same as what I'm looking at, doesn't it ?

Pretty close, yes. There are five charging coils (single phase centre tapped) and one ignition coil (300v+). The magnets don't last well if the rotor is off the bike, has got very hot, or the bike has stood for a long time with the rotor in just the wrong position.

I'm used to Triumphs with an annular stator and a solid magnetic rotor.

I've got a seriously toasted alternator of a Triumph Daytona race bike on the bench. It was only about a month old. I'm going to see if I can rewind it for my friend.

I don't suppose it'll remagnetise the dial indicator stand base I wrecked the other day ?

With the right pole piece attached it would. Gingery did a book on building a magnetiser, they're quite simple.